John Holloway

The Slumber of Apollo

Reflections on Recent Art, Literature, Language and the Individual Consciousness

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this 1993 book, John Holloway explores the radical change in the very nature of individual consciousness over the last century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 362g
• ISBN-13: 9780521248044
• ISBN-10: 0521248043
• Artikelnr.: 34438672

Autorenporträt

John Holloway has published widely on Marxist theory, on the Zapatista movement and on the new forms of anti-capitalist struggle. His book Change the World without Taking Power has been translated into eleven languages and has stirred an international debate, and Crack Capitalism is a renowned classic. He is currently Professor of Sociology in the Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades of the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla in Mexico.

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
Preface
Introduction
1. Personalities and panoramas
2. Comic art, coded cartoon
3. Consciousness and the language of politics, 1880-1980
4. 'Words, words ...'
5. 'Personology' personalities
6. The passing of 'largeness'
7. The poetry of the wilderness
8. Consciousness beleaguered
Note on reproductions of paintings
Notes.